Randal Marlin Quotes

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

The media is not going to change.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.